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Dealing with Interests, Values and Knowledge in Managing Risk
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 56.00Radioactive waste management is an area of public interest in which stakeholder involvement has largely proven itself to be beneficial to all parties and processes concerned. With growing experience, sharing best practice can be useful at the international level. more...
Geological Repositories
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 50.00Various long-term radioactive waste management options have been considered in order to protect humans and the environment both now and in the future. Most experts worldwide agree that disposal in engineered facilities, or repositories, located in appropriate formations deep underground, provide a suitable option. more...
Management of Uncertainty in Safety Cases and the Role of Risk
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 70.00The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised a workshop on the ?Management of Uncertainty in Safety Cases and the Role of Risk? in Stockholm, Sweden, on 2-4 February 2004. The workshop's main objective was to discuss different approaches to treating uncertainties in safety cases for radioactive waste management facilities, and more specifically how... more...
Stability and Buffering Capacity of the Geosphere for Long-term Isolation of Radioactive Waste
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 77.00Most experts worldwide agree that radioactive waste disposal in engineered facilities, or repositories, located in appropriate formations deep underground, provide a suitable waste management option for protecting humans and the environment now and in the future. more...
Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Taylor & Francis 2004; US$ 329.95Presenting effective, practicable strategies modeled from ultramodern technologies and framed by the critical insights of 78 field experts, this vastly expanded Second Edition offers more than 20 chapters of industry- and waste-specific analyses and treatment methods for industrial and hazardous waste materials - from explosive wastes to landfill leachate... more...
Waste Treatment in the Food Processing Industry
CRC Press 2005; US$ 119.95This work provides technical and economic information on wastewater treatment in the food industry, focusing on innovative and alternative technology, design criteria, managerial decision methodology, and regional and global environmental considerations. Coverage encompasses dairies, seafood processing, olive oil manufacturing, potato processing, s more...
Waste Treatment in the Process Industries
CRC Press 2005; US$ 179.95From the second edition of Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, this book focuses on new methods in waste treatment for various industries, such as pharmaceuticals, textiles, petroleum, soap, detergent, phosphate, paper, pulp, pesticides, rubber, refineries, and power. An international group of contributors offer 13 chapters on po more...
Olive Processing Waste Management
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 215.00The book contains a comprehensive review of literature and patent survey concerning olive processing waste. Over 1,000 citations are presented. Wastes considered include olive cultivation solid waste, wastes arising from classical, three- and two-phase olive mills and wastes generated during table olive processing. In addition, information is presented... more...
Recycling in textiles
Woodhead Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 245.00An increasing amount of waste is generated each year from textiles (including carpets and clothing) and their production. For economic and environmental reasons it is necessary that as much of this waste as possible is recycled instead of being disposed in landfill sites. On average approximately 10 million tonnes of textile waste is currently dumped... more...
Engineered Barrier Systems (EBS) in the Safety Case
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 63.00In the deep disposal of radioactive waste, the presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that the waste will be isolated and contained to protect human health and the environment. The barriers include the natural geological barrier and the engineered barrier system (EBS). The EBS itself may comprise a variety... more...









